Open AccessMagnetic braiding due to weak asymmetry
Author(s) -
A. B. Rechester,
T. H. Stix
Publication year - 1976
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/4129151
Subject(s) - helicity , asymmetry , physics , toroid , magnetic field , perturbation (astronomy) , plasma , condensed matter physics , quantum electrodynamics , magnetic helicity , current (fluid) , perturbation theory (quantum mechanics) , atomic physics , magnetohydrodynamics , nuclear physics , quantum mechanics , thermodynamics
Magnetic surfaces for a plasma with a helical current perturbation approximately epsilon$sup 2$ are destroyed by toroidal effects or by a second current perturbation, of incommensurate helicity, and the behavior of magnetic field lines becomes stochastic in layers of relative width epsilon$sup -$/sup l/ exp (-$pi$/2 epsilon). (auth